(Headline USA) Louisiana enacted a new map of congressional districts Friday that is designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state’s two majority-black House districts, both of which are represented by Democrats.
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed the plan hours after it overwhelmingly passed the...
(Headline USA) The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 11 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released this week.
Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer, heart disease and stroke, and it’s long been...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with Kai Hoffmann, founder and managing director of SOAR Financial, to discuss the recent turbulence in gold and silver markets, inflation concerns, central bank policy, and the outlook for mining stocks. Hoffmann,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israel is pressing the US to restart heavy airstrikes on Iran that would involve the targeted killing of Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of Tehran’s lead negotiators, and attacks on the country’s oil infrastructure, Capital & Empire reported on Thursday.
The report, which cited US sources...
(Headline USA) Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before House lawmakers investigating Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse cases, a long-awaited appearance that brings fresh scrutiny of the administration's botched release of the Epstein case files.
Bondi was defiant in previous public testimony when she was confronted by lawmakers about the Epstein...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A judge has denied former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin’s motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, who is suing Seraphin over his claims that she’s an Israeli intelligence asset who’s acting as a “honeypot”—a tactic where someone sexually...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who won $88 million in civil judgments against President Donald Trump after accusing him of sexual assault.
Citing two anonymous sources, the Times reported that the DOJ...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An unnamed federal judge in the South was disciplined earlier this year after admitting to disturbing accusations of judicial misconduct, including claims she engaged in a sexual relationship with an officer inside her taxpayer-funded chambers.
The allegations were revealed in a judicial filing released Friday by the...
(Headline USA) Jill Biden says she feared her husband was having a stroke as she watched then-President Joe Biden stumble through a disastrous debate performance that led to the end of his 2024 reelection campaign, the former first lady said in a recent interview.
“I was frightened, because I had never...
(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey challenged what he described as a deeply flawed mainstream narrative surrounding gold, inflation, and interest rates. Drawing parallels to common myths passed down through generations — like cracking knuckles causing arthritis or bread crust...
(Headline USA) A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washington paper mill, killing at least one worker and leaving nine others unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said.
Another nine people were injured, some severely, in...
(Randy Diamond, The Center Square) Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is claiming that his hardline policies on the homeless will mean that thousands of the unhoused will relocate to Seattle, with its more permissive policies, if he is elected to office.
The former reality television star-turned-political candidate has made...